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Month: October 2015

Check out these videos from the Apigee I Love APIs conference in San Jose, CA this week. If you click the little Facebook icon in the lower right hand corner of the video you’ll be able to read my intro to each video. Enjoy! And while you’re there, feel free to visit my Facebook page and check out more of the things I’m up to. Likes, Comments, Shares and Follows are also welcome and will actually help you see more of the things I do as well as other interesting things from other sources that may be of interest to you.

A couple of notes – To view in higher quality video click HD. Audio, unfortunately, is as good as I can get it after scrubbing it a bit to reduce the background noise. New hardware is in the works for me, both camera and microphone, to improve on the audio quality for these videos. I have to thank everyone who has contributed, either running the camera behind the scenes or offering comments and suggestions on how to improve from audio to video to content to length and more. Keep the feedback coming!

SAP Beacons For Smart Building Maintenance

SAP AR

Revio

Philips Hue

Sereneti Kitchen

Yonomi

There will probably be one more video from the conference that was graciously recorded by someone who offered to use their nicer phone/camera to record but hasn’t yet provided a copy. I’ll add it on Facebook and tack it on here when it is available.

IBM’s Watson super computer can win Jeopardy against its greatest champions. What does it think of the three newly called apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elders Ronald A. Rasband, Gary E. Stevenson and Dale G. Renlund? According to an analysis utilizing IBM Watson’s Personality Insights service, the one attribute they all exude 100% based on their first General Conference remarks since their new leadership call is sympathy.

This analysis can be done by anyone on any text by visiting the IBM Watson Personality Insights service available here. The site also has a detailed explanation of the science behind the analysis including its limitations; a direct link to that is here. Note that the October 4, 2015 remarks were all far under the recommended number of words for an appropriate analysis. At least 3,000 words are recommended with highest accuracy at 6,000 words or more. An analysis including the October 4, 2015 remarks and multiple previous General Conference talks by each speaker was performed and is included below. First, a look at the numbers based on the remarks on October 4, 2015.

Of the personality attributes analyzed by Watson, these are the attributes Watson found Elders Rasband, Stevenson and Renlund to be most similar.

Sympathy was equal across all three at 100%. There was a 1% difference between Self-consciousness, Agreeableness* and Self-transcendence. There was a 3-5% difference on the Outgoing, Extraversion*, Self-enhancement and Assertiveness attributes.

The same analysis by IBM Watson was run with the Sunday morning remarks by Church President Thomas S. Monson (see Table 2). President Monson also exudes 100% Sympathy and has similar results for the attributes in Table 1.

Table 2: Rasband, Stevenson, Renlund October 4, 2015 Most Similar Personality Attributes with President Monson

Attribute

Rasband

Stevenson

Renlund

Monson

Sympathy

100%

100%

100%

100%

Self-consciousness

1%

0%

0%

0%

Agreeableness

97%

96%

96%

97%

Self-transcendence

96%

97%

97%

100%

Outgoing

90%

93%

92%

97%

Extraversion

97%

92%

97%

97%

Self-enhancement

8%

3%

4%

0%

Assertiveness

83%

84%

88%

90%

There are differences in the personalities of the three newly called apostles as one would expect for individuals with varying experiences and backgrounds. These are the attributes where there was the widest range between the new apostles. President Monson is included but only the widest differences between the three new apostles was measured.

As was mentioned previously, the number of words in the October 4, 2015 remarks was not sufficient. In order to analyze across more words, two additional General Conference talks were included in a second analysis for each person. For all but Elder Renlund, the total number of words reached the minimum required 3,500 words. (See Table 5 for word counts and full results)

These are the most similar attributes of the three new apostles based on multiple remarks:

With a broader data set, Self-consciousness becomes the #1 most similar attribute with only a 2% difference. Sympathy had only a 3% difference but with both Self-consciousness and Sympathy the difference comes from Elder Renlund who, as previously indicated, does not have enough words to meet the 3,500 word minimum.

The following table presents the results of both times the IBM Watson Personality Insights service was run. The October 4, 2015 remarks came from the Sunday Morning General Conference Session. The Multiple Remarks included the October 4, 2015 remarks for each speaker plus remarks from April 2014 and April 2012 for Elder Rasband, April 2014 and October 2012 for Elder Stevenson, April 2015 and October 2009 for Elder Renlund, and Priesthood October 2015 and Sunday Morning April 2015 for President Monson.

The IBM Watson Personality Insights service provides a short personality summary compared to most people who participated in the surveys. These are the summaries from the Multiple Remarks analysis for each of the new apostles and President Monson:

Elder Ronald A. Rasband

You are social and confident.

You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are confident: you are hard to embarrass and are self-confident most of the time. And you are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life.

Your choices are driven by a desire for well-being.

You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with achieving success: you make decisions with little regard for how they show off your talents.

Elder Gary E. Stevenson

You are rational, helpful and genial.

You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are confident: you are hard to embarrass and are self-confident most of the time. And you are calm-seeking: you prefer activities that are quiet, calm, and safe.

Your choices are driven by a desire for well-being.

You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with taking pleasure in life: you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment.

Elder Dale G. Renlund

You are social.

You are confident: you are hard to embarrass and are self-confident most of the time. You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. And you are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life.

Your choices are driven by a desire for efficiency.

You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with taking pleasure in life: you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment.

President Thomas S. Monson

You are social and generous.

You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are confident: you are hard to embarrass and are self-confident most of the time. And you are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life.

Your choices are driven by a desire for connectedness.

You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with achieving success: you make decisions with little regard for how they show off your talents.

Personality Visualization

The IBM Watson Personality Insights service also provides a graphical visualization of the personality data. Here is President Monson’s visualization from the Multiple Remarks analysis:

Awesome venue, people and tech sums up the Luxury Technology Show at W Hollywood last week. But you don’t have to take my word for it; check out these short video interviews of 7 of the impressive technologies that were on display at the show.

Jerry Wilmink, CEO of WiseWear knocks it out of the park with BEAUTIFUL wearable jewelry. (want to learn more about how Jerry is giving the world options over current ugly, nerdy wearabletech check out this piece)

Michelle from 4mons.com demos the mamaRoo seat and origami stroller, tools for the tech friendly parent

Joe from Elan Home Systems is a man after my heart because he wants to make the smart home so easy that grandma can use it.

Segway has met it’s match with the ultra-low form factor of Hovertrax and Solowheel by Inventist. See it demoed by Joalene Jolivette, Marketing Director at Inventist

Technology to help regrow hair? Find out more from Fran & Marina from HairMax. The lasers stimulate the hair follicles but, unfortunately, don’t work fast enough for me to show you before and after head shots.

Megan Johnson from Sengled tells about their three connected light bulbs. Pulse plays music through up to 8 connected. Boost boosts your Wi-Fi. Snap has an HD camera inside for outdoor lighting and security.